Susan,
May I offer a friendly amendment to your comment that "those countries having
significant native populations such as the US, Canada, Australia and New
Zealand all voted against this resolution."
In fact, most of the countries of the world are predominantly indigenous
nations (e.g., most of the countries of Central/South America are predominantly
indigenous, so too most of the African, European, Asian, and South Pacific
nations). What the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have in
common is that the colonizing European powers (mainly the British, but also the
French in Canada and the Spanish in much of the southern/SW U.S.) combined
racism, genocide, expansionism, and imperialism to debilitate, shrink, and in
some cases altogether destroy indigenous tribes. The number of indigenous
peoples in these four nations was horrifically diminished at the same time that
the number of invading colonizers vastly overtook the number of indigenes.
The number problem for indigenous recognition in the U.S., Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand is that the indigenous populations are so small in relation to
the overall populations of these four countries.
All the best,
Susan
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It should be noted that those countries having significant native
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